beam of light projected from round hovering orb just dissapates and continues on

at exactly 2:19am me and a lady friend of mine were observing what started out to be the alignment of the planets and moving stars in the same area through my Meade telescope, the odd thing was some of the stars seemed to go forward and backward as opposed to "not". She noticed a dark object moving slowly overhead and brought it to my attn. I couldn't actually see it until it stopped, powered itself up with pure brite light, and projected a straight beam of light in front of my house but up the street about 100 ft for about a second and a half until the beam.....now get this.....dessapated apart...like in particles. Silent, spherical and metallic in shape, about 1000 ft above us and hovering, it started to move again slowly and in the same direction before it paused the first time. You cannot tell me that was anything other than what I saw very clearly and unmistakeably. Also there does happen to be Larwence Livermore Lab and a nuclear testing facility nearby here and I believe one of them or both are connected.